Comments on: Your mom runs Ubuntu? Join the team? She doesn’t yet? Help her. And join the Team!

By: jngoi

jngoi — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 00:21:31 +0000

My Mom uses Ubuntu but dual boots it with XP. She says she can’t do without yahoo messenger’s cam.

By: Scott Ritchie

Scott Ritchie — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 14:35:48 +0000

How interesting, I installed Ubuntu on your mom’s computer too.

By: Boycott Novell » Links 20/10/2008: $175 GNU/Linux-based System, Free Software in Government

Tue, 21 Oct 2008 01:16:17 +0000

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By: Mackenzie

Mackenzie — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 18:44:02 +0000

Thanksgiving will be 2 years for my mom running Ubuntu. She’s used Dapper, Edgy, Feisty, Gutsy, and Hardy, but I’m not going to move her up to Intrepid. It doesn’t really add anything for her. She really likes it, but the fact that she’s got some half-dead hardware is creating issues. I need to get her a new computer.

By: Thalles

Thalles — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 15:59:21 +0000

My mom uses Ubuntu since August and there’s no complains

By: sepp

sepp — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 08:24:46 +0000

My mom refuses to change, but my grandma uses ubuntu…

By: Johannes Eva

Johannes Eva — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 02:15:55 +0000

Dont forget to create the group “My Girlfriend/Boyfiend runs Ubuntu”…
Actually my Parents, my Brother and my Girlfriend all run Ubuntu

By: hoergen

hoergen — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 21:33:22 +0000

My mom is using Kubuntu (hardy) and this is her first computer.

By: oliver

oliver — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 18:52:04 +0000

My mom uses Ubuntu (Gutsy) but incidentally just today I tried to diagnose weird Suspend/Resume problems on her laptop (it worked flawlessly when I installed it but somehow now doesn’t wake up always).
So in retrospect, I’m still not sure whether Linux was the correct choice. While it has saved me a lot of support trouble in comparison with Windows (mainly because I have no clue of recent Windowses and their problems), with some more money to spare I would probably have bought her a Mac right from the start. OTOH, maybe that would have resulted in the same amount of support troubles as Linux or Windows, just with other topics

By: Ellipsis

Ellipsis — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 17:12:43 +0000

I am still waiting to move my parents to Ubuntu…not really sure for what. My dad has certain needs and is a odd sorta mix between a power user and traditional “old person” when it comes to the computer.

They are the sorta people that if they don’t like it the first time they probably will not try again. I will probably end up remixing a personal “mom&pop” Ubuntu to make sure everything goes as smoothly as possible.